Top 36 quotes by Hans Arp

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Hans Arp

While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell.
Hans Arp

Art , Distance , Gun

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.
Hans Arp

Hands , Understanding

Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.
Hans Arp

Men , Order , Deception

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.
Hans Arp

Writing , Communication , Black And White

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.
Hans Arp

Light , Animal , Essence

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.
Hans Arp

Thinking , Born , Process

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Hans Arp

Men , Technology , Essence

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.
Hans Arp

Men , Should , Nature

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.
Hans Arp

Joy , Littles , Little Things

We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant produces its fruit, not depict. We want to produce directly, not indirectly. Since there is not a trace of abstraction in this art we call it concrete art.
Hans Arp

Art , Want , Wish

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.
Hans Arp

Doe , Essence , Depth

Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times.
Hans Arp

Art , Distance , Zurich

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.
Hans Arp

Men , Touching , Symbols

The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.
Hans Arp

Art , Important , Thrones